by Suzann Thompson | Oct 11, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
What a great way to start the morning! I was on the way to breakfast in Taos last week, when I saw this gorgeous sight. I think a lot of Taos mornings are like this. My workshops, Beginning Crochet and Two-Handed Stranded Knitting went well, and the Wool Festival was...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 12, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
On August 7th, I talked about the first craft book I ever knew, which belongs to my mother. I posted a picture of a striped sweater from the book. The author wrote that the sweater could be knitted without a pattern (ohne Schnitt), but then gave detailed instructions...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 7, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
After the post about the National Button Society Convention, Woolwinder asked for pictures of moonglow and goofy buttons. Thanks to Peggy Ann Osborne’s book Button Button, I can tell you more about them than I could a few weeks ago. Moonglows are glass buttons...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 24, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
While at the Highlights Foundation Writers Conference last month, I met a lady named MJ who purposefully and successfully wears mismatched socks. She has some fabulous socks, too. And MJ unwittingly solved a problem for many knitters—the second sock syndrome, where...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 13, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We tagged along with my mom to the German Texan Heritage Society meeting last weekend. The girls and I took a couple of hours to shop at the venerable Yarn Barn of San Antonio, at 4300 McCullough. The Yarn Barn has an impressive selection of needlework books, old and...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 7, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
In 1949, my grandmother gave my mother a book for her birthday. It was the first craft book I ever saw as a kid. The title is Gestaltende Hände, ein Werkbuch für Mädchen, by Hildegard Fochs. That means Forming, Shaping, Modeling, Designing or maybe Creative Hands, a...
